Ken Russell Quotes
Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.
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We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
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Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
